Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recently financial troubles forced the Sanseverinos to put their Pieta up for sale. They soon found that disposing of a masterpiece was not so easy. There were few prospective buyers for a work of art which Italian experts valued at $1,000,000 or more. Whoever bought it would also have to worry about a 90% government tax on the sale-and admit to a fortune which might be subject to more taxes in the future...
...want to do people," Mussorgsky wrote a friend-"big, without any paint or tinsel." Among the paint & tinsel he avoided were the fripperies of Italian and French opera with their wooden recitatives and stagy arias, and the prettied-up harmonies of such fellow Russians as Tchaikovsky. In Khovanchina, Mussorgsky came very close to his ideal of realistic singing speech...
...readers who might feel tricked, Incom ran the original photographs inside, along with a diagram showing how they were mated. The stunt paid off. Incom sold a record 260,000 copies, one-third more than its usual circulation. Among the purchasers: Roberto Rossellini, who, in a fine Italian fury, telephoned Incom's office to bellow that Incom's general manager, Sandro Pal-lavicini, was a bastard. Two rival picture weeklies were less bold and less convincing-Oggi, with a cover showing Ingrid and Roberto looking fondly at a baby that was obviously several months old, and Tempo, which...
...Bicycle Thief. Italian Director Vittorio (Shoes/tine) De Sica's carefully made classic of a worker and his small child hopelessly scouring Rome for a stolen bicycle (TIME...
Actress Bergman plays a piece of postwar European flotsam. As a desperate means of getting out of a D.P. camp, she marries a simple Italian fisherman (Mario Vitale) and follows him to his native Stromboli, a volcanic island where life is primitive and the islanders hostile. She is appalled to find it no less a prison than the camp she has left...